.com was a common file extension for MS-DOS executables, which was still in common use when the Internet started taking off.
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skulblaka@kbin.social 10 months agoThat one in particular is a bomb waiting to blow. Is this link to a webpage or to a malicious download? Who knows! Guess we'll just have to click on it and see if anything starts downloading.
Using file extensions for your TLD should be a big no-no for a lot of reasons, that being one of them.
danielton@lemmy.world 10 months ago
xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 10 months ago
Are you aware that opening any webpage, regardless of TLD, can cause a file to start downloading?
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 10 months ago
That is what I said about .com.
BarrierWithAshes@kbin.social 10 months ago
Yeah but nobody uses .com files anymore. Its a dead format. Any that still do are for specific users and rare instances.
nokturne213@sopuli.xyz 9 months ago
But they were still in wide use when the world wide web was born.
TitanLaGrange@lemmy.world 10 months ago
huh, Windows still distributes a handful of .com programs. Neat.
I liked .com back in the day because it was easy to write assembly and dump it through the MSDOS ‘debug’ program to create an executable.